Switching shapes and tools: is it broken?

[Jan Hambrecht]

On 20.06.2011 10:34, Dag Andersen wrote:
> Before the weekend I fixed a crash in ArtisticTextShape and, as Jan Hambrect
> pointed out, I unvittingly removed the functionallity to go direct between
> shapes. So I thought I'd find out how this *should* be implemented before I
> tried to put it back, but I can't!
> I can find code that afaics is supposed to do it, but it is never executed. It
> may be that it is just me being confused so I need to run this by somebody
> that is more familiar with the code than I am.
>
> There is two "types" of switches that can occure:
> 1) Switch between shapes with different tools.
> E.g. TextTool ->  ArtisticTextTool.
> 2) Switch between shapes using the same tool.
> E.g. TextTool ->  TextTool

3. Switch between shapes using a layer docker like in Karbon or Stage.

This was the use case targeted in the artistic text tool. So the user 
could just click on another artistic text shape from the layer docker 
and have the tool use that for further editing.

Ciao Jan